Roses - Varieties

Climbing Roses: Plant 90-150cm (3-5 feet) apart.; Climbing Roses often have prickly, arching, stiff stems and bear glossy, dark-green foliage. Flowers are often scented and borne in clusters or individually. Useful for training against a wall or fence, or to cover garden structures. Usually flowering from spring to early summer.Most Climbing Roses will flower well without major pruning. Begin training the shoots horizontally along supports spaced 15-20cm (6-8 inches) apart, as this encourages flowering. Tie in all new growth to wires with soft string while the growth is young and flexible. Repeat this in subsequent years and simply remove dead, diseased or weak growth. From the third season after planting in the autumn, reduce the side shoot growth by about two thirds, cutting above an outward facing bud.
Floribunda Roses e.g. 'Queen Elizabeth': Floribunda Roses are shrubby Roses, with prickly stems and dark foliage, and long flowering periods. Floribunda types will often produce clusters of up to 25 blooms, and are suitable for use as bushes or as hedges. Flowers summer to autumn. Plant approximately 90cm (3 feet) apart. Remove flowers as they fade to encourage further blooming. At the end of the flowering season, (usually autumn) cut back plants to 30-45cm (12-18 inches) and reduce any side-shoots back to 2 or 3 buds.
Flower Carpet Roses: Plant out 60-90cm (24-36 inches) apart.; A unique breeding phenomenon giving low-growing Roses which produce a carpet of colour from summer through to autumn. Remove the flower heads as they fade and give a light clip with shears each November to keep plants tidy and within bounds. As the bush grows older, a little pruning out of old, dead or weak wood may be necessary.
Hedging Roses e.g. 'Freedom USA': For hedging, plant approximately 60cm (2 feet), or for a really thick hedge, plant two rows 90 cm (3 feet) apart staggering the plants within the rows.; A special Rose for creating thick, strong hedges of deep green foliage and vivid scarlet blooms. May take a while to establish and thicken, but the end result is an outstanding hedging Rose. These long flowering roses are suited to most garden soils, in an open sunny site. Newly planted roses will benefit from a light prune to approximately 15cm (6 inches) when first planted. In subsequent years, prune back half of the growth in March.
Hybrid Tea Roses e.g. 'Golden Jubilee': Plant approximately 90cm (3 feet) apart.; A shrubby Rose creating a similar bush to Floribunda, although the blooms are much larger, often double, and are prized. They are produced either solitary or in clusters. Hybrid Tea Roses flower from summer through to autumn.; Newly planted roses will benefit from pruning top growth back to approximately 15cm (6 inches) when first planted. In subsequent years large flowered Roses are best pruned to three to five buds from the base of the previous season's growth during March/early April.
Patio Roses e.g. 'The Queen Mother': Plant into containers at least 30cm (12 inches) in diameter; Patio Roses tend to be small shrub Roses producing sprays of colourful blooms, their compact habit means they are very good container plants for the patio. Flowers over a long summer period. Plant into containers at least 30cm (12 inches) in diameter, using a good quality compost such as the soil-based John Innes No.3. You may also wish to mix in plenty of organic matter and a good general-purpose granular fertiliser to the compost. During the season, remove flowers as they fade.; At the end of the flowering season, (usually autumn) cut back growth to 30-45cm (12-18 inches) and reduce side-shoots back to 2 or 3 buds.Rambling Roses; Plant 90-15cm (3-5 feet) apart.; A vigorous type of Roses with long, arching, prickly stems with lax habit and dense foliage. Clusters of double, usually scented blooms will be produced from early summer. Begin training the shoots horizontally along supports spaced 15-20cm (6-8 inches) apart, as this encourages flowering. Tie in all new growth to wires with soft string while the growth is young and flexible. Repeat this in subsequent years. In the first two or three years, reduce the side-shoots back to 3 or 4 buds and remove dead, diseased or weak growth.; From the third season after planting in the autumn, reduce the side shoot growth and begin renewal pruning as required, i.e. reduce plant back to within constraints of space.
Standard/Half-Standard Roses: Plant as a specimen or in a group, allowing at least 1.2m (4 feet) between plants.; A unique type of Rose whereby grafting has taken place to give a head of blooms aloft an upright stem, thus forming a standard plant. Standards are usually made from Hybrid Tea or Floribunda type Roses.; After planting, reduce all stems back to 20cm (8 inches). In subsequent years, hard pruning is not required. Simply prune back stems lightly in order to keep a shapely head, ensuring that all branches are reduced back to an equal length, this should be done during March/April.
Shrub/Species Rose e.g. moyesii Geranium, pimpinellifolia: Plant 60-90cm (2-3 feet) apart.; Roses with a bushy habit, often larger than Hybrid Teas. The usually scented blooms are produced in clusters, although sometimes singly, from spring to summer or autumn. Good for beds, borders and hedging.; Each year, prune back your plants lightly to keep neat, tidy and within the allotted space. Reduce growth of the main stems by up to a third if necessary, and reduce sideshoots by half. Prune either in late winter for repeat-flowering types, or summer, after flowering, for those which flower only once.

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